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What is Frisson?

Have you ever felt a sudden, passing sensation of excitement, a shudder of emotion from an epic moment of a song, or a climax of a movie? That is what is called "frisson", a word rooted from the French word meaning "Goosebumps" or "Shiver". It has been linked to rises in dopamine levels which is, in turn, linked to your outlook towards others.

Frisson is a physical reaction, it's not just about "that hit me right in the feels." Unless you get a physical tingle/chills/goosebumps/shudder, it does not belong in this subreddit. Please consider /r/aww for happy submissions and /r/baww for sad submissions if they're not frisson-inducing.

It's marketing. And beyond fake. This gets discussed every time it's posted, which is far too frequently. Stop submitting and upvoting fake culture and pale imitations of real things cooked up by some marketing grad in a suit.

I mean. Engels went back to work at his dad's factory so that Marx would have money to live on. His lover was a radical Irish factory worker and he fought in the revolutions of 1848, raiding armories and shooting things up as he went. Wrote his own works on socialism as well, and was Marx's closest friend and collaborator. Hell, Marx was radicalized as a direct result of Engels taking him to London and showing him the conditions of the slums there.

I don't think the "Flash Mob" distinction of it has anything to do with the quality of the music or the feelings and emotions it elicits. I've never seen this before, and knowing it was staged has not changed anything I felt when I heard it.

What the hell do people mean by "staged"? A company gave them money, they were able to use better sound and video equipment than they could've otherwise, and some bank attached their name to it. Artists can't eat applause. Somebody needs to fund that shit.